Since 1993, the United Nations has worked to increase global awareness of endangered species through a special set of commemorative postal stamps released each year. This year's set was released today, and features an array of 12 beautifully drawn endangered marine animals. »10/24/14 1:34am 10/24/14 1:34am

Meet Hiddleston. The blue-eyed black lemur was born at the Duke Lemur Center in March 2013. Since then, Duke researchers and students have recorded every detail of his life in their logbooks. Now, the Lemur Center is setting that data free, along with data for 3599 other lemurs that have called North Carolina their… »7/28/14 3:16pm 7/28/14 3:16pm

Chinese brewers are making wine from tiger bones despite specific regulations against the trade in tiger bones. And it's not technically illegal, since they're not actually selling the bones. What? »7/23/14 9:53am 7/23/14 9:53am

A new analysis shows that global warming will reduce Antarctica's emperor penguin population by nearly 20% over the next 80 years as the sea ice on which they breed becomes less secure. »6/30/14 3:20pm 6/30/14 3:20pm

Naturalists working in the mountainous forests of Sri Lanka's Peak Wilderness Sanctuary have uncovered no less than eight new species of frogs, nearly all of them critically endangered. »3/22/13 9:20am 3/22/13 9:20am

A recent paper by Caterina Wiedemann describing her success in freezing and thawing the egg cells of several different cat species is raising an interesting question about our efforts to preserve endangered animals. We've got a doomsday seed vault in the Arctic, so why not create egg vaults, too? »2/28/13 2:00pm 2/28/13 2:00pm

The Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire, U.K., has just announced the birth of an endangered Western Lowland gorilla. Born to parents Ozala and Oumbi on January 3, the yet-to-be-named baby's gender is still not known, because the mother is guarding it carefully. »1/30/13 4:00pm 1/30/13 4:00pm

Meet Nicky, an impossibly cute blind baby rhino that is currently under the care of Mike Watson and his team of conservationists at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya. Nicky has been living with them since he was one month old, after the conservationists noticed him in the wild getting all confused and aimlessly… »12/18/12 6:20am 12/18/12 6:20am

Camera-trap photos are a little like teddy-bear-camouflaged nanny-cams for endangered or hard-to-photograph species, which makes the winners of this year's BBC Wildlife's Camera-trap Photo of the Year competition some of the most candid wildlife portraits out there. »11/26/12 6:52am 11/26/12 6:52am

Brazilian scientists have announced that they are moving ahead with plans to clone a number of endangered species, a list of animals that includes the jaguar, maned wolf, and black lion. The groundbreaking initiative is being conducted by the Brasilia Zoological Garden in partnership with the Brazilian government's… »11/07/12 6:30am 11/07/12 6:30am

Back in 2006, Chinese scientists released a panda named Xiang Xiang into the wild as part of their effort to increase population levels. Unfortunately, Xiang Xiang was killed a year later when he got into a fight with wild pandas. Hoping to avoid a similar setback, scientists have now released a second panda into the… »10/12/12 7:55am 10/12/12 7:55am